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Jennifer Olges

Assoc Professor Term

School of Medicine

Orcid identifier0009-0000-3871-1519
  • Assoc Professor Term
    School of Medicine

BIO

Jennifer Olges, MD, MPH, FACP is an Associate Professor in the University of Louisville Department of Medicine and an academic hospitalist at UofL Health- UofL Hospital. She also serves as Director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program.

 

Dr. Olges was born and raised in Louisville. She received her bachelor's degree in biology at the University of Kentucky in 1998. After several years of laboratory research and obtaining her master of public health degree, she pursued medical school at the University of Kentucky, where she graduated with high distinction in 2009. She began her residency in a combined internal medicine and pediatrics program at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN and completed her training at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, IL in 2013. During her fourth year of residency she was named the program's Med/Peds Chief Resident and went on to serve as Pediatric Chief Resident the following year. She remained at Loyola University as an Assistant Professor in Hospital Medicine before moving back to Louisville in 2016 to join the faculty at UofL. 

 

Dr. Olges is active in multiple national organizations including:

  • American College of Physicians - Fellow, Current governor of the Kentucky Chapter, and member of the Education Committee
  • Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine - APDIM
  • Society of Hospital Medicine
  • Kentucky Medical Association - Greater Louisville Medical Society

DEGREES

  • MD
    University of Kentucky, Lexington, United States